Based on the pragma-dialectical perspective of argumentation, an analysis of the anima-listic argument called argument of the marginal cases is made. The identification of its argumentative structure and its rhetorical ...

In this paper I develop a reconstruction of founded theory, understanding it as a “methodological program” with big importance within the qualitative research paradigm. Grounded theory's main assumption is that theories ...

It is not enough to naturalize epistemology: the main challenge of the philosophy of scientific practices is to naturalize the axiology of science. The same happens in the history of science. This deals usually with theories, ...

This article proposes a naturalized conception of capacities, causality and modality. Particularly, I defend that capacities are modal causal properties that confers to phenomena a range of possible behaviours. Thus, these ...

I will revisit the debate that opposes externalist against internalist standpoints in evolutionary biology in order to present the state of the art, and sketch an ontological framework that goes beyond this duality, and ...

This article attempts, in general, an Evolutionary Approach to the problem of Coope-ration, with special emphasis on Human Cooperation. Throughout the text I present the different proposals from the Theory of Evolution ...

In this article we present a brief history of the process of building the modern mecha-nistic model (S. XVII) from the notion of machine. In reviewing the basic elements that constitute the mechanism is to identify the ...

In Evolution: the Modern Synthesis of 1943, Julian Huxley outlines a possible development of what has been called the Baldwin effect, which diverges significantly from what was thought by Morgan and Baldwin himself in 1896. ...

In this brief paper the Quine ́s famous thesis, according to which a change of logic implies a change in the meaning that logical expressions convey, is analyzed and criticized. First, as a result of the analysis, I show ...